Adding Firewire to Mythbuntu

[Matt Graham]

On 2016-03-15 18:38, Office wrote:
> I'm running Mythbuntu 14.04 on my home theater and looking to upgrade 
> my
> cable box and the new box is best controlled by firewire. My home 
> theater does
> not have that connection and I don't want to blindly stick a card in 
> only to
> find it comes with a bad linux driver. Any suggestions on a good card? 
> or what
> to look for when adding this to my system?

The last time I looked at firewire in 2006ish, there was only one 
firewire chipset that was generally found in the wild.  I bought a 
firewire PCI card at the local Worst Buy and it worked just fine.  The 
kernel module is probably called firewire-ohci or ohci1394 depending on 
how old the kernel is.

Talking to the cable box itself will probably be more difficult than 
finding a PCI card that'll work.  The firedtv module looks like it would 
be thing to try first.  udev will probably load the correct modules when 
you plug the device in.  (I thought that manufacturers had abandoned 
firewire because USB2 was cheaper and far more common, but you learn 
something new every day...)

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